Microsoft continues its predictable course, fighting FOSS every inch of the way. In many ways, it’s too late for them. Even if they suddenly understood the inevitability of FOSS dominance, and of Microsoft’s fading importance as an operating-system provider, their behavior has been such that the FOSS community would not welcome their participation. Microsoft’s Windows operating system will be important for a long time to come, but it will slowly but surely succumb to the inevitable success of Linux.